Arsenal favourites to sign young Southampton left-back
It has been revealed this morning that the Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger will once again have his scouts at the Reebok Stadium tonight to watch their young Southampton left-back Luke Shaw in action in the Youth Cup against Bolton.
Shaw is not legally allowed to sign professional terms with anyone until July when he reaches 17 years of age, but it is believed that the Saints have already put a price of £4m on the youngsters head, despite him still awaiting his senior debut.
But the teenage defender has already appeared regularly for the England U17 side and Trevor Brooking has already pinpointed him as a possible star of the future.
Although Arsenal were always going to be favourites to sign the Southampton youngster after having already done deals for Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain with the South Coast club, the Independent also reports that the Gunners could face competition from Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea, who are also very keen on bringing in promising yung English talent into their Academy teams.
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Young star for the future yes, about crisis to our defence we need the one with experience, everyone saw the different btn gibbs and santos, experience matter, further more you should concentrate on to write to us on serious signing and not minor ones.
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Its true and am support you that young star is better for the future but for right now we need the experience player cause there’s leakage on our defence.
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Would be better for future… we neeD some proven stars who can help us to win some trophies..!
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Fine with me. AW is also looking at Eric Abidal which would be a perfect move for us-experience, France caps, composure.
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I’ll go for Abidal… or someone Experienced & available player for short term… Baines is not practical cause we have Santos as our No.1 … Gibbs should be given another chance to prove before next window in summer….
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I hope to see the likes of Yennaris, Miquel and Coquelin get more chances to play at full back rather than Djourou or Squillaci.
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Just do it soon wenger!
he mention short term,so we need an experience one.hu cn developed some of the young player too.we hv henry(winning mentalities), abidal much experience needed for a short term.wud help the team. we failed on cisokho n they wnt permanent for under 10m.bt if we gt abidal til the end of the season.he cn help some of the youngster too.that is what we needed not someone like squid or silvestre
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As i keep saying sign baines
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Samba would be a better and easier signing than Baines, as Blackburn aren’t looking to good in relegation zone and I’m sure the beast would love to play in a CL team.
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Aly Cissokho is VERY available(and cheap) and y not go for C.Samba *my opinion
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Hmm. Southampton feeder for Arsenal. Arsenal feeder for Man Citeh.
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Samba would be a gr8 move, but blackburn will hold on to him like mad, as he is the corner stone of dere defence. hes also dere captain. just
Imagine Mertesacker standing next to Samba in the back line?
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Lol Southampton would be in the top flight if Arsenal didn’t keep taking all there good players.
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If Mertesacker partner with Samba, I can say it is surely not gonna work… Both aren’t quick, just strong and tall…
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Is Merts strong? Tall, yes, and my is he tall! But I can’t count the number of times he’s been bullied off the ball by a dogged 3-foot forward.
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Why do people keep insisting on Samba when we have a plethora of centre backs? We need a LB, RB or anyone that can play on either wing in defence. We’re never getting Samba, lets just put that to rest and move on.
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Oh I forgot to mention Baines is never going to be signed by Arsenal. Everton will overprice him as any team in the EPL does with their star players. Lets wake up to reality people!
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Lol Arsenal would be in the top flight if Man arabs didn’t keep taking all there good players.
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Has Southampton turned into a feeder club for Arsenal or are they just a part of their youth academy…:P
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Yo have u ever wonder what will happen to all these young players when aw resign
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